Oxfordshire Light Infantry

Oxfordshire Light Infantry Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd)
Cap badge of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
Active	1881–1958
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Infantry
Role	Light infantry
Size	2 Regular battalions 1 Militia battalion 2 Territorial and Volunteer battalions Up to 8 hostilities-only battalions
Garrison/HQ	Cowley Barracks, Oxford
Nickname(s)	The Ox and Bucks The Light Bobs
March	Nachtlager in Granada
Anniversaries	Waterloo (18 June)
Commanders
Ceremonial chief	HM Carlos I of Portugal

The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry was a light infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1881 until 1958, serving in the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II.

The regiment was formed as a consequence of the 1881 Childers Reforms, a continuation of the Cardwell Reforms, by the amalgamation of the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) and the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry), forming the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry on 1 July 1881. In 1908, as part of the Haldane Reforms, the regiment's title was altered to become the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, commonly shortened to the Ox and Bucks and the 4th battalion and the 1st Buckinghamshire battalion were formed, both originally county volunteer units, and they became part of a new Territorial Force, later the Territorial Army (TA).

After service in many conflicts and wars, the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry was, in 1948, reduced to a single Regular Army battalion and on 7 November 1958, following Duncan Sandys' 1957 Defence White Paper, was renamed the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd), forming part of the Green Jackets Brigade.

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